A Brief History of Bioinformatics Software

A series of quantitative metaphors on the speeds of representative events in evolutionary biology. The end of our three-part series.

How experimental recordings have changed, from the Renaissance through today.

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Why scaling AI won’t automatically lead to paradigm shifts.

We tend to think of fermented foods as something humans invented and then chose to eat. But the evidence shows the opposite: fermented foods shaped human biology.

How a blood-stained surgeon's frock evolved into a pristine symbol of modern science.